entrepreneurs in Swaziland. …

We examine the impacts of an unconditional cash transfer in Lesotho using an experimental impact evaluation design. We … schooling in Lesotho and suggests that impacts on child welfare are influenced by time and labour constraints and by gender …

and Lesotho, two large apparel exporters serving both global and regional markets. We use a linear probability model to …

Lesotho is a small Southern African country that has introduced two national cash transfer programmes, the Old Age … Pension and the Child Grant Programme. Although Lesotho has followed what has been called the 'Southern African model', the … Programme was initially driven by international organizations, but the dynamics were not Southern African, and the Lesotho …

case studies the two African countries, Botswana and Nigeria.Using distributed-lag analysis, the paper finds that the … supportive of the 'resource curse' hypothesis for Nigeria, but not for Botswana.I further argue that the superior institutional … quality in Botswana, relative to Nigeria, is likely responsible for the contrasting results. However, Nigeria appears to be …

Botswana has serious environmental problems which, if not addressed, will undermine the attainment of sustainable … in Botswana. The results show that although both the national government of Botswana and top aid donors have concerns for … of Botswana needs to prioritize the environmental sector and coordinate the donor aid disbursed to the sector. …

colonial and post-colonial Botswana. We show that income inequality started rising in the 1940s and peaked in the mid-1970s …

Botswana, Ghana, Mauritius and South Africa are sub-Saharan African countries that stand out for their development …

Botswana's welfare state is both a parsimonious laggard in comparison with some other middle-income countries in Africa … contract - to those of its neighbours in Southern Africa. It is the result of the specific character of poverty in Botswana and … the enduring, but not unchallenged, political dominance of the conservatively paternalist Botswana Democratic Party. …